Search n replace recursively

[coollllllllllll]

Hi ,

/test  with /home/test123

need to replace only /test  by /work  .

Only "/test" , it must not leave test123 as it is .

How do i search and replace recursively ?? for many files 

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[Dennis Handly]

You could use "find ... -exec magic-script {} +, where magic-script is a sed or perl script that will change the string.

sed -e 's:/test:/work:' file > file.new

>Only "/test", it must not leave test123 as it is.

Did you really mean "not" above?  My code will replace only the first "/test" by "/work" but also "/teststuff".

[coollllllllllll]

Oops my mistake.

I meant it must leave test123 as it is.

It must replace /test with /work only in all recursive sub-directory .

[Dennis Handly]

>Oops my mistake.

(You can use Post Options > Edit Reply to correct it.)

If you only want to change /test, is it always followed by a space?  What are all possible delimiters?

Or is it anything that's NOT [A-Z_a-z0-9]?

sed -e 's:/test\([^A-Z_a-z0-9]\):/work\1:' file > file.new

[coollllllllllll]

Hi ,

Its only /test  always followd by nothing.

its a mountpint replacemnt taken from different server.

/test to replaced with /work only  ....many files.

/test123 not to be touched

want to do it using perl

[Dennis Handly]

>Its only /test  always followed by nothing.

sed -e 's:/test$:/work:' file > file.new

[coollllllllllll]

Hi Dennis ,

How can i achieve this for all subdirectory .

In short a one liner sed or perl would be preferable.

[coollllllllllll]

Also for me this ones working fine ;

sed -e 's:/test\([^A-Z_a-z0-9]\):/work\1:' file > file.new

[Dennis Handly]

>How can I achieve this for all subdirectory?

You would take the above find command and create magic-script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

# Replaces /test by /work in all files on the command line

for file in $*; do

   sed -e 's:/test\([^A-Z_a-z0-9]\):/work\1:' $file > $file.new

   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

      mv $file.new $file

   fi

done

You can probably do it easier in one step in perl.

[coollllllllllll]

Hi ,

Can u help me with perl.